Sentences with phrase «on urban agriculture project»

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Slow uptake Projects to promote the application of urine in agriculture have spread worldwide over the last decade: from pee collection and transport systems designed for 6,500 users in urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; to research on the application of human urine for carp fish farming in West Bengal, India; and more than 135,000 toilets diverting urine in Sweden.

His cuisine focuses on highly seasonal and under — utilized vegetables, urban agriculture projects, and wildcrafted ingredients.

Many urban agriculture projects are fundamentally community focused being run by local people for local people and, as well as producing food, focus actively on addressing issues that affect community cohesion.

Growing food in cities has many positive effects on the environment and lots of urban agriculture projects have clear environmental objectives as part of their primary aims.

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The organic nature of many urban agriculture projects helps decrease reliance on oil based agrochemicals, improve soil quality and reduce contamination.

COOPI (Italy, project coordination) and RUAF Foundation (the Netherlands), in cooperation with institutions and organisations involved in the Freetown Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (including the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security; Freetown City Council; Ministry of Land, Housing and Environment; Ministry of Health and Sanitation; National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone (NAFSL); Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Organisation (SLYEO); Njala University; and other stakeholders).

The Botswana policy paper on urban agriculture assigns a critical role to farmer education through the production of books, brochures, posters, and community level demonstration projects and advocates for the integration of urban agriculture into the formal training and education system (e.g. agricultural colleges, technical schools).

The RUAF Foundation prepared a paper on «The role of urban agriculture in building resilient cities in developing countries» for (and published by) the UK - Foresight «State of Science Review 19 (SR 19) and the Global Food and Farming Futures Project, which is run by the UK's Government Office for Science.

In the coming years, the RUAF Foundation will train project staff of OXFAM and local partners in Gaza on various aspects of the development of pro-poor market - oriented urban agriculture.

Staff of local governments, research organisations and NGOs participating in the UN Habitat Cities and Climate Change Programme and in 2 CDKN - funded projects were trained on the potential impacts of urban agriculture and - forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation, and on practical methods for monitoring them; climate - smart urban agriculture technologies; and the design and assessment of alternative strategies for the development of urban agriculture as part of city climate change strategies.

Fourteen case studies on the role of women in urban agriculture and urban food security and draft guidelines for gender mainstreaming of urban agriculture projects and policies were discussed.

These have included workshops on: «Productive reuse of urban wastes and wastewater in urban agriculture» with CREPA (Burkina Faso) in Ouagadougou; «Urban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in Turban wastes and wastewater in urban agriculture» with CREPA (Burkina Faso) in Ouagadougou; «Urban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in Turban agriculture» with CREPA (Burkina Faso) in Ouagadougou; «Urban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in TUrban livestock systems» with NRI (UK) and Mazingira Institute (Kenya) in Nairobi; and «The design of evaluation frameworks for urban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in Turban agriculture projects» with IDRC (Canada) in Tunis.

For information about Sustain's report on the visit, click Edible Cities, It looks at examples of urban agriculture projects in cities including New York, Milwaukee and Chicago (where green rooftops have become a common feature of the landscape, to reduce energy bills and cool the city - see Chicago City Hall below), and identifies a series of opportunities that other cities could be adopting.

This video reports on «low space, no space» technologies applied in the AULNA project in Antananarivo, Madagascar to improve food security and income of the urban poor, and on the integration of urban agriculture in urban land use planning in order to reduce the impacts of climate change in this city, notably flooding.

Gender mainstreaming in research and action projects on urban agriculture has been facilitated by producing a book with tested guidelines and tools (per phase of the project cycle) and a series of project case studies.

This event follows on from the Sustain report Edible Cities (downloadable from www.sustainweb.org/publications), detailing the visit of London officials to urban agriculture projects kindly supported by the US Embassy.

Throughout the day, the current global food crisis provided as useful rationale for more food to be grown in cities.The day was split into a series of sessions focusing in on opportunities to increase the amount of food being grown in London and what urban agriculture projects are currenty running in the capital.

Just the first, SITE, sets some of the toughest standards: The land must be on land previously developed, it must support urban agriculture, and «For each hectare of development, an equal amount of land away from the project site must be set aside in perpetuity as part of a habitat exchange.»

His experience also includes service as a LEGIS Fellow and staff member with the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs for Congressman Bill McCollum in the U.S. House of Representatives, and work on the Financial Institutions Project at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.